Wednesday, December 07, 2011

[jules' pics] AGU Day 2

The day was as sunny as hoped.

As James already mentioned, we sprinted round the Embarcadero for a morning pastry, and then got a bus back to the hotel. In the peace and quiet of lunchtime we toured Tuesday's posters, on regional climate, tsunamis, and bit of paleo. My favourite poster was one on using Twitter to chart climate change expressed in terms of the location of armadillos. Second favourite was a study which analysed whether the climate change people thought they had experienced was consistent with actually observed trends. The answer seemed to be on the whole yes, but sometimes no.

Meanwhile, I am getting quite concerned about the San Franciscans' want of taste. Who would paint their house a color (sic) that clashes with the sky?!

And then there was this in the window of the supposedly top notch bakery...

I read Hello Kitty Hell for a few years but gave up recently, finally overwhelmed by the horrors it reports.

7 comments:

That's not the sky. The sky is gray and puffy-looking and usually below the rooftops, so the electric green color is dreamlike. We are not entirely sure what that blue thing is that shows up when the sky goes away. We suspect it's some kind of pollution, perhaps blown over from China.

Heh. It was just cloudy enough early to give me an excuse to put off jogging but was soon back to blue...maybe by Californian standards the weather here is a bit dismal but compared to where I grew up...

um...yes, it was the .....erm....(googles)....Chestnut Bakery, surprisingly enough on Chestnut Street. Not sure if it really deserves the amazing reviews that it seems to get but it was certainly pretty good.